"A Sligo Landlord" sends to Tuesday's Times a very curious
account of the effect of this (somewhat tardy) interference of the Government in his own ease, in a letter headed "Cause and Effect." On the previous Friday, he says, his agent attended a market town in Connaught to receive rents. He was asked whether he would give an abatement on judicial rents, and his reply was a refusal. Well, then, said the tenants, they would pay none ; they had not got the money ; the money could not be made. The agent shut up his books and went off to dinner. In the meantime, the news came from Dublin that Mr. Dillon had been cited to appear in the Court of Queen's Bench to show cause why a criminal information should not be taken agar-fist him for intimidation. "Within an hour of the papers being so distributed, every penny was paid. These impecunious tenants even came knocking at the window of the room where the agent was dining, to urge him to come out and receive rents which an hour before they declared they had not got at all." It is a pity that the Sligo landlord is not bold enough to sign
his name. Intimidation exerted on the tenants' side produces almost as much secrecy now in the landlords, as intimidation on the landlords' side once produced in the tenants.
